Pencil-clip



UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. WAHL AND HTIGO S. HASSELQUIST, OF CHICAGO, AND ARTHUR. F. POOLE, 0F KENILWOILTH, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO THE WAHL COMPANY, 0F WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION 0F DELAWARE.

PENCIL-CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN C. WAHL, HUGO S. HAssELQUIs'r, and ARTHUR F. POOLE, citizens of the United States residin at Chicago, Chicago, and Kenilworth, Il mois, respectively, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pencil- Clips, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improvement in clips for mechanical pencils, fountain pens"and the like and has for its object the provision of a clip which will be readily and cheaply manufactured, of ornamental a pearancc and which will `be readily adjusta le to the pencil itself.

Our invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying figures, of which IFigure 1 is a perspective view of a wellknown Ever-sharp pencil having our improved clip attached;

Fig. 2 is a section along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and y Fi 3 is a Viewr partly in section, showin the clip before it is assembled onto the en of the pencil, and

orna mental tassee Fi 4 is an illustration of the blank from whio the clip is made.

Referrin to Fig. 1, 10. is an Eversharp l pencil whic is provided at the end with an fitted onto a sleeve 12, serving as a sup rt for an eraser 13. The tassee 11 is ma e in an ornamental design and is spun up from tubing which has been previously out to the proper length. Our im roved clip forms the top of the tassee 11 an is made from a circu ar blank 14 having a projection 15 which is afterwardbent to the proper form for the clip. The blank 14 has its edges turned down until it appears in somewhat the shape shown inFig. 3, in which is shown the central portion 14 Vand an edgelf, which is turned down all around the circumference the clip proper 15. The structure consisting of the artially formed clip shown in Fig. 3 is then placed on the tassee 11 and the projecting edgel'? is then spun into engagement with 11, which is frictionally the top portion 18 of the spun tassee 11. :Ihe top portion of. this tassec is turned in, as shown at 19, for the purpose of providing a form of a bead on the upper edge thereof and thusi'eving additional rigidit 'to the tassee. n the edge 17 of the clip 14- is spun over the top edge of the tassoe 1l, there results a structure which is exceedingly firm and rigid, and it is to be noted that the body portion of the clip 15 forms the top edge ofA the tassee. After the clip 14 and tassee 11 have been united, the point 2U of the clip is given a suitable form to bring it in contact with the body 10 of thc pencil.

'While we have shown our clip as adapted `to be used with the well-known Evcrsharp pencil and prefer to use it in suoli connes -tion yet we do not wish to limit ourselves to the use ot' our invention with this particular pencil. It is adapted to be used on fountain pens or pencils of other kinds.

Man modifications and departures may be ma e from the precise structure herein shown withoutdepartin from the spirit of our invention, since we c aim:

1. In a clip for a mechanical pencil, the combination of a casing, a circular body portion adapted to be attached to the end of said pencil casing and having `a portion approxlmately the same diameter as said pencil casing, and also having) a portion integral therewith adapted .to

forming a clip;

2. In Va mec anical pencil, the combination of aremovable end frictionally held on the body of said pencil, and a. combined clip and cover for said end, said clip and cover consisting of a circular body portion adapted to be attached to said end, thereby forming the extreme endof the pencil, said body portion `having pxojectin `therefrom a ton ue adapted to forme into a clip for sai pencil.

In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

JOHN C. WAHL. HUGO S. HASSELQUIST. ARTHUR F. POOLE.

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